For those of you who don’t know; a hedge fund is basically a pooled investment vehicle (like a mutual fund) where there are absolutely no constraints on what the investment portfolio manager can do with the money. Sociologist, author, and financial j...
Following up on my blog of July 15, 2010 entitled “Why Reshaping the Federal Reserve is today an Absolute Must” I thought I’d share these thoughts with you, demonstrating the Federal Reserve’s true agenda in the economy today, and why reshaping the...
There is clearly a tendency today for countries all over the world to “beggar thy neighbor” (just as happened during the 1930s) and gain a leg up for their exports by cheapening their currencies. “Beggar thy neighbor” for those who are not familiar w...
With income tax rates set to go up on January 1, 2011, Congress is hotly debating what to do next. Most economists though agree: Keep them where they are. One option, to let the tax cuts passed during the Bush administration expire for only the riche...
A debate is being played out today in the Fed about whether it should return to the so-called “quant easing” — buying more mortgage-backed securities, Treasury bills, and other bonds — in order to lower the cost of capital sti...
This blog is mainly addressed to the hundreds of Bonnie Light Crude Oil brokers and other intermediaries with no website, no corporate Email, no money, no education and not a single ounce of business protocol who approach us each year with fake offer...
One of the rules of the rich is that if you want to be rich and wealthy you need to either buy or create assets. Assets are things that generate you income without you needing to work for it. If you were to stop work then your assets would continue t...
According to Robert Chapman, renowned editor of the International Forecaster, the recent surge of the Dow from 9,686 only a month ago to a run up to 10,674 just recently; as insiders learned of the Fed’s plan to inject $5 trillion into the economy ov...
As Henry Kravis the king of the buyout business once said: “”Unfortunately, there is a flip side to having access to plentiful capital. It means that too many people without experience in building businesses have too much money.” How true...
As mentioned time and time again to our clients worldwide, we at Blackhawk never supported bailouts but rather believe it would be much better to let bailed out companies fail, rather than wait for a number of them to happen all at once. The system c...